• 한국간호교육학회지
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.17-26
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• 2023

Purpose: This study's aim was to investigate digital literacy, awareness of virtual reality, and educational needs of virtual reality-based nursing education among nursing students. Methods: Structured self-reported questionnaires were used to measure the nursing students' digital literacy, awareness, and educational needs of virtual reality. This study was conducted on 162 nursing students in Seoul between December 13 and December 24, 2021. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, and one-way ANOVA with SPSS/WIN 24.0. Results: The mean scores on digital literacy, awareness, and educational needs of virtual reality were 4.38±0.42, 4.71±0.64, and 4.08±0.61, respectively. Concerning the educational needs of the subjects, the need for safety education was the highest, followed by the need for oxygenation education, elimination education, and activity and exercise education. Significant relationships were found between digital literacy and the awareness of virtual reality (r=.34, p<.001), between digital literacy and the educational needs of virtual reality (r=.17, p=.028), and between awareness and the educational needs of virtual reality (r=.51, p<.001). Conclusion: This study suggests that it is necessary to develop a virtual reality-based nursing educational program that reflects the educational needs of nursing students.

• 한국CDE학회논문집
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.397-408
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• 2016

VR and AR are widely used in many applications to provide more immersive visualization and natural interaction for learning and experiencing virtual but realistic tasks. Energy saving is considered as one of the most important issues throughout the world in order to overcome global warming and energy crisis. In particular, the awareness of home energy saving is regarded as a first step to deal with this issue. In this paper, we suggest a new learning environment using virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) for home energy saving experience. In particular, it presents a comparative study of the user experience in home energy awareness using immersive virtual reality and mobile augmented reality. The first person user experience using immersive VR wearing head mounted display (HMD) and the third person user experience using mobile AR are implemented and systematically compared with each other in terms of the learning effect of energy saving and qualitative usability. Implementation results will be given to show the advantage and effectiveness of the proposed approach.

• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 9th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.1209-1216
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• 2022

The majority of construction site incidents occur due to a lack of hazard awareness among workers on job sites. This lack of awareness is despite mandatory construction safety training, typically in the form of written content (safety manuals) or of images depicting hazards. To reduce job-site injuries and fatalities, general contractors have started adopting Virtual Reality (VR) to impart safety training to job site personnel. VR safety training can take the form of an immersive simulation comprising potential safety hazards intentionally embedded into a virtual job site; users are required to identify these hazards within a specified time frame with the expectation that they will be more adept at recognizing hazards on an actual job-site, resulting in fewer accidents. This research study seeks to identify the actual impacts of VR on construction safety awareness among participants. The research addresses the following question: Does VR improve hazard recognition awareness? The primary objective is to evaluate participants' performance of past construction safety awareness against present construction safety awareness after receiving VR training. Participants were asked to complete a multiple-choice Qualtrics™ questionnaire. The results of the study showed a statistically significant knowledge gain advantage with respect to hazard recognition and construction safety awareness with the use of interactive, immersive VR over a more conventional and passive safety training method.

• Asian Journal for Public Opinion Research
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.226-250
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to explore whether the perceptions of materialistic realities of South Korean university students can be explained by individual experience and media use. We examined: 1) relative consequences of awareness of discrimination experience and amounts of time spent on genre-specific media on perceptions of materialistic realities, 2) whether cultural orientation (allocentrism, self-monitoring, and masculinity) influences explanatory factors of awareness of discrimination experience, 3) conditions of countervailing responses to materialistic reality. As a result of analyzing the online survey data of 330 university students in Seoul, the amount of time spent on the beauty or fashion genre and awareness of discrimination experience explained the perceptions of materialist reality in Korean society. Although the perceptions that affected the accommodative response did not affect countervailing response, innovativeness had an interaction effect with perceptions of materialist reality in only countervailing response. Finally, the implications of these findings were discussed.

• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 8th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.129-136
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• 2020

Augmented reality (AR) technology assists construction workers by superimposing additional virtual information onto their real worksite environments. Ideally, this provides them with a better understanding of their tasks and hence boosts task performance. However, the additional information that AR places in users' field of view could limit their ability to understand what is going on in their surroundings and to predict how conditions may change in the near future. AR-assisted systems on construction sites could therefore expose their users to safety risks due to disturbance from the system. Hence, it is important to understand how AR-assisted systems can block users' understanding of their immediate environments, and in turn, how worksite safety in the construction industry could be improved through better design of such systems. This preliminary research conducted a laboratory experiment that simulated rebar inspection tasks and compared the situational awareness of AR users against that of subjects using traditional paper-based inspection methods, as measured by the Situation Awareness Rating Technique. Based on the results, we discuss the safety impact of head-mounted AR-assisted displays on situational awareness during construction tasks.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.9-15
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• 2019

The government has defined domestic violence as one of the four major social evils and tried to prepare laws and systems to prevent it. Nevertheless, domestic violence has emerged as a serious social issue, and compare to the number of domestic violence cases that are constantly increasing, the report rate of domestic violence is significantly lower. This suggests the need to improve citizens' perception of domestic violence as the issue to solve it together in society, not as a private matter at home. Most of existing contents for preventing domestic violence and improving awareness are simple viewing forms of video contents, which have little effect on recognition. We aim to confirm the possibility of improving social awareness about domestic violence by producing Virtual Reality (VR) contents that have great features of user's immersion and empathy. In this VR content, the user can interact with various objects in the virtual reality of domestic violence and directly or indirectly experience the victim's position. Users who view the violent environment from the victim's point of view can have a subjective empathy for the problem, which is expected to induce more active awareness about domestic violence.

• 한국CDE학회논문집
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.171-181
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• 2007

Ubiquitous computing is a vision of our future computing lifestyle in which computer systems seamlessly integrate into our everyday lives, providing services and information in anywhere and anytime fashion. Augmented reality (AR) can naturally complement ubiquitous computing by providing an intuitive and collaborative visualization and simulation interface to a three-dimensional information space embedded within physical reality. This paper presents a service framework and its applications for providing context-aware u-car maintenance services using augmented reality, which can support a rich set of ubiquitous services and collaboration. It realizes bi-augmentation between physical and virtual spaces using augmented reality. It also offers a context processing module to acquire, interpret and disseminate context information. In particular, the context processing module considers user's preferences and security profile for providing private and customer-oriented services. The prototype system has been implemented to support 3D animation, TTS (Text-to-Speech), augmented manual, annotation, and pre- and post-augmentation services in ubiquitous car service environments.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.270-275
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• 2023

The government has defined domestic violence as one of the four major social evils and tried to prepare laws and systems to prevent it. Nevertheless, domestic violence has emerged as a serious social issue, and compare to the number of domestic violence cases that are constantly increasing, the report rate of domestic violence is significantly lower. This suggests the need to improve citizens' perception of domestic violence as the issue to solve it together in society, not as a private matter at home. Most of existing contents for preventing domestic violence and improving awareness are simple viewing forms of video contents, which have little effect on recognition. We aim to confirm the possibility of improving social awareness about domestic violence by producing Virtual Reality (VR) contents that have great features of user's immersion and empathy. In this VR content, the user can interact with various objects in the virtual reality of domestic violence and directly or indirectly experience the victim's position. Users who view the violent environment from the victim's point of view can have a subjective empathy for the problem, which is expected to induce more active awareness about domestic violence.

• 한국HCI학회논문지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.5-14
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• 2018

가상현실 치매체험 프로그램(EDuVR, Empathy for Dementia using Virtual Reality)은 환자가족, 조호자, 일반인들에게 치매환자에 대한 이해와 공감을 유도하기 위해 제주특별자치도 광역치매센터에서 개발한 360도 가상현실 콘텐츠이다. 치매에 대한 인식개선도구 개발의 필요성에 따라, 치매환자가 겪는 기억력, 지남력, 언어능력, 판단력과 같은 인지기능 저하와 이로 인한 일상생활의 어려움을 환자 일인칭 시점으로 체험하도록 하였다. 본 보고의 전반부에서는 EDuVR에 대하여 소개하였고 후반부에서는 EDuVR 체험이 인식개선에 미치는 효과를 기술하였다. 총 66명의 피험자를 EDuVR 집단(34명)과 교육집단(32명)에 할당한 후, 치매태도검사, 치매인식검사를 사전과 사후에 각각 측정하였다. EDuVR 집단은 추가적으로 VR 경험에 따른 멀미감과 현실감 수준을 측정하였다. 그 결과, 치매환자에 대한 태도 및 인식은 EDuVR의 체험에 따라 긍정적으로 변화하였으며, 이러한 변화는 치매교육의 효과와 다르지 않았다. EDuVR의 체험 후 유의한 수준으로 멀미를 느낀 사람은 1명에 불과하였다. 본 결과는 EDuVR은 짧은 체험시간만으로도 교육과 유사한 수준의 인식개선 및 태도변화를 일으키며, 멀미감이 크게 유발되지 않아 일반대중이 체험하기에 용이한 콘텐츠임을 시사한다. 즉, EDuVR은 치매에 대한 이해와 공감수준을 높이는 유용한 인식개선 도구이다.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제16권7호
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• pp.49-58
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• 2011

증강현실은 가상의 상황에 대한정보를 실체화하여 영상에 정합하여 제공함으로써 정보의 시각화를 통해 사람의 인지능력을 보조한다. 증강현실 기술은 최근 카메라와 디스플레이 장치가 장착된 정보기기의 보급으로 인하여 교육, 디자인, 관광, 산업분야 등 다양한 연구가 진행되고 있다. 이러한 증강현실 시스템들은 대부분 사용자의 명령에 따라 반응하는 제한적 상호작용을 하기 때문에 실제 세계의 상황을 다양하게 반영하기에는 제한이 있다. 본 연구에서는 기존의 증강현실 시스템을 기반으로 상황정보를 제공하는 상황인지 에이전트와, 영역지식을 기반으로 지능적 기능을 제공할 수 있는 지식기반의 증강현실 시스템을 제안한다. 이러한 시스템은 증강되는 객체가 상황정보를 반영하여 지능적으로 동작하고, 다중 객체 사이의 상호작용을 가능하게 한다. 본 연구에서는 규칙 기반 상황인지 시스템과 이에 따른 3D 모델을 생성하고, 증강되는 객체들 간의 상호작용을 실험하였다. 또한 시스템 개발에 있어 사용들이 쉽게 증강현실 환경을 구현할 수 있는 프레임워크를 제시하였다.